Moksha edit

Etymology edit

Morphologically from васень (vaśeń, first) +‎ -це (-će, [ordinal forming suffix]). Compare васенда (vaśenda, first [adverb]; at first).

Pronunciation edit

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Adjective edit

васенце (vaśenće)

  1. first
    • O. Je. Poljakov (1995) Učimsja govoritʹ po-mokšanski [Let's learn to speak Moksha], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN
      Инголенк ащесть кафта ведаркат. Васенцеса ульсть марьхть, омбоцеса — шукшторуфт.
      Ingoľenk aščesť kafta vedarkat. Vaśenćesa uľsť maŕhť, omboćesa — šukštoruft.
      In front of us [there] were two buckets. In [the] first one [there] were apples, in the second one — currant.

Inflection edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ vaśeńćä in Heikki Paasonen, Mordwinisches Wörterbuch

Further reading edit